tonight, stephen welcomes jon stewart, john oliver, samantha bee, ed helms and rob corddry. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: woo! ♪ ♪ hey! what's going on? ( cheers and applause ) how are you? what's going on, man? >> jon: what's going on? >> stephen: how was your weekend? >> jon: great. ( audience chanting stephen ) >> stephen: hey! welcome to the "late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) huge story that broke just minutes ago, like, less than ten minutes ago. f.b.i. director james comey has just been fired by donald trump. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: wooo! >> stephen: wow, huge, huge donald trump fans here tonight. that shows no gratitude at all. >> jon: man. >> stephen: i mean, did trump forget about the hillary emails that comey talked about? i mean "thanks for the presidency, jimmy. now don't let the door hit you where the electoral college splits you." ( laughter ) i'm shocked. my heart is pumping. my pulse is

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tonight, stephen welcomes jon stewart, john oliver, samantha bee, ed helms and rob corddry. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: woo! ♪ ♪ hey! what's going on? ( cheers and applause ) how are you? what's going on, man? >> jon: what's going on? >> stephen: how was your weekend? >> jon: great. ( audience chanting stephen ) >> stephen: hey! welcome to the "late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) huge story that broke just minutes ago, like, less than ten

i can -- >> jon stewart really changed it.ught big-time point of view to late-night, consistent point of view. he wasn't always liberal, but he was extremely committed to certain issues. >> we are, as we speak, live from our election center studios in new york city's abandoned prostitute district. >> it was the 2000 presidential campaign when the show went from being mostly about pop culture, to really focusing on the election. >> steve bowdow was the executive producer on "the daily show." >> by then, the show was a political show, and it pretty much has been ever since. >> good news for mitt romney, he has won tonight, we can announce this right now, most of the confederacy. >> mulling over certain compact news story and teasing out all the ironies of it has been the rubric for almost everybody in late night. >> responding to trump's ill-informed tweets can be a full-time job. and i know, because it's my full-time job. >> late-night now had a blueprint. new shows were spawning new talent. >> jon stewart is the jumping off po

jon stewart is. [applause] >> come on. >> i like jon stewart. r too, but if martin t you want to get the facts of the day and one in to be reliable, i good one.hews is a if you disagree, that is your prerogative, but aside from that i used to read time and newsweek all the time. i don't anymore. i used to read them cover to cover. just don't, because they don't tell it like it is. you find that is happening in a lot of newsrooms around the .ountry they want the status quo. they don't want to rock the boat. those guys, their days are gone .nd most of them are gone there are some good websites like bob mentioned and you should pick your tv shows based on what your interest is and should not waste a lot of time reading them. the nation is a good magazine. [applause] >> they happen to be honoring bob, when is that? month. thank you, larry. june 7, fairmont hotel. great. >> thank you. >> yes. >> hi. you are doing a good job. my question is indirectly political. what do you make of the trend that appears to be an pornography of pornographic images of

know the most effective antidote to bad speech was good speech it was you know it was very much a jon stewart movie in philosophy we've realized that the world that we live in has changed it's no longer possible to stand up for all speech in the whole that ultimately society would become a better place because racism will be challenged or over for we will be challenge or extremes of rich and. well this is in stark contrast with the corporations previous philosophy in two thousand and twelve twitters then general manager in the u.k. said the company's leadership likes to think of the platform as the free speech wing of the free speech policy we spoke with social justice campaign and george barda he told us that as twitter's reach grows it will face increasing pressure to take responsibility for the content on the platform. i think because the likes of twitter and facebook or somewhere very complicated li in between a kind of neutral platform like the internet as a whole and news providers and as they have more and more power of easily as vehicles via which people understand the world there is

. >> stephen: you want to hear something funny, jon stewart and i were offered those roles.said we were too busy we can't do that they said fine. and then it was you and brad pit. i am just saying you and brad picked up the scripts we through out the window is all i'm saying. >> i really wanted to work with george miller, you know, he told me he couldn't think of anybody else for that part, and i just feel like george miller lied to me. >> stephen: he should have told you. >> he should have told me. >> stephwh >> stephen: who was the he was the krill with the abs. >> so that would have been you or jon. >> stephen: i think jon is vegan sow has the abs. >> okay. wow. >> stephen: i'm sorry. >> so the kids have seen that, yes. they have seen that and i did an animated movie called spirit about a horse about 20 years ago. these are children who have now grown up, you know, 20 years later, but so my kids have seen that as well. >> stephen: wonderful, wonderful. and are they impressed with you or snig like that. >> not a a all. >> stephen: do they have an awareness of any of the re

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made several appearances on "the daily show" with jon stewart. hans merricks an interesting point.ection. regardless what you think of iran and behind this, seems to be a redirection of the administration into concentra concentrating on iran as enemy number one despite the fact there is a nuclear deal repeatedly been shown to be working. what do you think is behind this? >> well, i mean, i really would like to, this colin powell moment of irrefutable evidence is kind of like a deja vu what we had seen before the iraq war. and broke today as a middle eastern arab talking about the middle east, but why not to talk about a concerned resident of the united states, legal resident of the united states, might i say. i mean, when will this stop? yesterday it was iraq. today it is iran. tomorrow it's something else, and this is like another justification for increasing and inflating the military budget. we talk about the spineless republican, a deal for trump, but we don't talk about the democrats who actually approved $80 billion in increase of military spending. america doesn't need that

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